New Delhi: The family of slain Kashmiri Pandit Satish Tickoo has moved a Srinagar court requesting a status report on all first information reports (FIRs) registered against Kashmiri separatist Farooq Ahmed Daar, alias Bitta Karate, who is alleged to have killed several Pandits in the 1990s, Hindustan Times has reported.The demand to reopen the cases related to the killings of Kashmiri Pandits has grown after the release of The Kashmir Files film directed by Vivek Agnihotri.Advocate Utsav Bains who filed the criminal application on behalf of Tickoo’s family, said, “Today was the first hearing… The court heard the matter positively and reprimanded the Jammu and Kashmir government (asking) what had done in the last 31 years. This hearing is a ray of hope for Satish Kumar Tickoo’s family.”He further added that the next hearing was scheduled for April 16, and the court had questioned the Jammu and Kashmir administration why no chargesheet had been filed against Karate.In 1991, during an interview, Karate, now a leader in the outlawed Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), admitted that he had killed several Pandits, including Tickoo, during the peak of insurgency in the Valley in the 1990s.However, Karate subsequently said that he did not kill anyone and claimed that he “admitted to killings” only under duress.In June 1990, Karate was arrested under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act and was in jail till 2006, after which he was released on indefinite bail. He was arrested again in 2019 by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on charges of terror funding.A week befiore Tickoo’s family moved the court, the director general of Jammu and Kashmir, Dilbag Singh, had said that all cases pertaining to terrorism would be pursued.